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Though they will not talk of the White House, that certainly sounds like a national battle-plan.In essence, New Jersey's rumpled , charming, bullying governor embodies a bet: that the Republicans must develop a bipartisan appeal, or perish.
Playing against type, Ken Clarke, the justice secretary a rumpled , paunchy, suede-shoed jazz lover distrusted by the party's right turned Colonel Blimp, thundering that had the party failed to form a coalition it would have been "a disgraceful dereliction of duty".
Suits are rumpled , stubble is visible, eyes are baggy.
Although the cricket-loving Mr Gent is rarely to be seen without a dark suit and tie, he always manages to look slightly rumpled , an effect amplified by his taste for naff shirts.
Handcuffed, he made the "perp walk" in front of rolling cameras and flashing bulbs.And then to courtMr Strauss-Kahn looked tired and rumpled when he appeared in court on May 16th.
Even Roberto Goizueta, Coca-Cola's boss during much of the 1980s and 1990s, quickly shed his Cuban heritage in favour of a Yale education, an American passport, and a career at head office.Nor does the self-deprecating, rumpled Mr Daft look the part of a humourless, buttoned-down American boss.
A photograph taken a few hours before shows him dressed in black, his waistcoat rumpled , his shirt collar awkwardly arranged around his long neck, his left hand resting on a stack of books.
That is not to deny that he is a decisive minister or a good media performer: as suave as Mr Clarke is rumpled , he is a lucid interviewee, alternately languid and icy.
In 1999 she became a finalist for the Turner Prize with the installation My Bed (1998), which displayed not only the artist's actual bed but also rumpled bedclothes and what one critic called "uncomfortably personal debris," including soiled underwear, empty liquor bottles, and used condoms.
Brazilian opera singer Paulo Szot brings his lovely burnished baritone and a rumpled romantic presence to the role of Emil de Becque, the lonely French planter whose wooing of young nurse Nellie Forbush is derailed when she recoils from the fact he has mixed-race children.
They will need to go some to beat New York's best offering: Gehry's shimmering, artfully rumpled 76-storey apartment building in Spruce Street, called simply "New York by Gehry" – a vertical architectural autograph on the Manhattan skyline.
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The primary grammatical function of "rumpled" is as an adjective . It modifies nouns, describing a state of being wrinkled, creased, or disheveled. Ludwig AI confirms its correct usage across numerous examples.
Expression frequency: Very common
